Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel (1 September 1727-12 April 1794) was the Constitutional Archbishop of Paris from 1791 to 1794 during the French Revolution. He was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.

Biography
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel was born in Thann, Alsace, Kingdom of France on 1 September 1727, and he graduated from the German College in Rome in 1743. He became an ordained Catholic priest in 1750, and he was elected to the Estates-General of 1789 as a deputy from the First Estate. In 1790, he spoke in favor of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, and he served as Archbishop of Paris from 1791 to 1794. Gobel spoke out against clerical celibacy and publicly declared his anti-clericalism, and he would later become an atheist after renouncing his religious views and joining forces with the Hebertists. On 12 April 1794, Maximilien Robespierre had Gobel and several other Hebertists guillotined.